Yemen: Detained African Migrants Tortured, Raped

Expand Buraika detention facility for migrants in Aden governorate, Yemen. © 2018 VICE News Tonight on HBO (New York) –Yemeni government officials have tortured, raped, and executed migrants and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in a detention center in the southern port city of Aden, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have denied asylum seekers an opportunity to seek refugee protection and deported migrants en masse to dangerous conditions at sea. Former detainees told Human Rights Watch that guards beat them with steel bars and sticks, whipped them, kicked and punched them,…

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